RENCRAFT IN THE MEDIA

From Chart Farm to KBB

The Story Of The Cobham Collection

We were delighted to be featured in Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine this month with a special feature on one of our recent projects, The Cobham Collection.

Long-term client, Merran Tait and Rencraft Director, Robert Waite spoke to KBB journalist, Lou O’Bryan about how they worked together to create an elegant all-white kitchen with socialising and sophistication at its heart. In addition, to the kitchen space, the case study also delves into the other rooms of the home where we also fashioned cabinetry for the utility room, home office, TV snug and boot room complete with dog shower.

Want to read more about how we designed an open-plan layout with carefully zoned areas for maximum functionality whilst still maintaining an aesthetic calm? Just hit the link below!

Rencraft project The Cobham Collection as featured in KBB Magazine
Rencraft project The Cobham Collection as featured in KBB MagazineRencraft project The Cobham Collection as featured in KBB Magazine

RENCRAFT IN THE MEDIA

From Chart Farm to KBB

The Story Of The Cobham Collection

We were delighted to be featured in Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms magazine this month with a special feature on one of our recent projects, The Cobham Collection.

Long-term client, Merran Tait and Rencraft Director, Robert Waite spoke to KBB journalist, Lou O’Bryan about how they worked together to create an elegant all-white kitchen with socialising and sophistication at its heart. In addition, to the kitchen space, the case study also delves into the other rooms of the home where we also fashioned cabinetry for the utility room, home office, TV snug and boot room complete with dog shower.

Want to read more about how we designed an open-plan layout with carefully zoned areas for maximum functionality whilst still maintaining an aesthetic calm? Just hit the link below!

Rencraft project The Cobham Collection as featured in KBB Magazine
Rencraft project The Cobham Collection as featured in KBB MagazineRencraft project The Cobham Collection as featured in KBB Magazine

There is a quiet revolution happening in the way people think about their homes. But it is not a trend, exactly, it is more of a return: a recognition that the most beautiful rooms have not always been built around fixtures, but around objects. Much loved like the family’s doting Labrador, these items are part of a family’s landscape and never without their quirks. They are pieces that are meticulously handcrafted, that carry a story and improve with age, pieces that will one day be handed down and become another generation’s cherished inheritance.

At Rencraft, we have always believed that a kitchen should contain furniture, not merely cabinetry. Where a fitted kitchen is designed to disappear seamlessly into its context, great freestanding furniture is designed to be noticed: the room’s central focus, which holds the key to truly understanding a space and what it means to its owners. These are pieces with weight, with character, with the texture of real materials worked by real hands.

They are, in the truest sense, heirlooms in waiting.

Handmade bespoke kitchen in Westerham Kent

Why We Love Freestanding Furniture

The great country house interiors of England were never fitted: they were furnished. And this has always been the ethos of our MD, John. “To me, a kitchen isn’t just a kitchen anymore, it’s furniture within a room, and it has to be aesthetically pleasing as well as functional. The best kitchens are the ones that work: they deliver on the practical side, but they’re also pleasing to look at. I always say, if you go into an antique shop, you’ll find pieces of furniture made from wood that were designed a hundred or two hundred years ago, and they’re still attractive today. In a modern way, that’s what we try to do. And if you think about it, that’s the best sustainability you can get.”

If we take a step back into the past, it is plain to see that the beauty so admired inside the land’s stately homes came from the accumulation of purposeful, beautiful objects, each one placed with intention, each one built to outlast its owner.

And this is exactly why we think so carefully about every piece of furniture we make, fitted or otherwise. We see each item not merely as a functional object for today’s kitchen, but as something worth keeping, worthy of passing on.

Handmade bespoke kitchen in Westerham Kent

Here are some of our favourite pieces of freestanding furniture, currently on display in our showroom in Tunbridge Wells.

Bespoke handmade oak table with marble worktop in Tunbridge Wells Kent

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 1
The Chef’s Table

To understand the design behind this standalone piece, you must first understand the architecture of the building in which it stands. Our award-winning, flagship showroom occupies a four-storey Georgian townhouse on Calverley Road in Tunbridge Wells. Its façade looks out onto one of the town’s finest streets through arched windows. It is the kind of building whose proportions remind you how seriously the eighteenth century took beauty as a civic obligation, and every piece of Rencraft cabinetry within it has been fashioned to match that imposing elegance. On the face of it, the building is not an obvious starting point for a piece of kitchen furniture, but it is precisely where the design of the Chef’s Table begins.

Standing elegantly in one of our ground floor displays, this exquisite cook’s table, made from solid oak timber, boasts turned oak legs using traditional woodworking techniques. To add interest, the legs are skilfully fluted along their lower section, with each leg’s radius mirroring the bullnose edge on the marble worktop above. The oak frame and legs are lovingly finished, by hand, with a rich wax to give that aged, antique patina.

The marble, a rare, hand-picked Calacatta, was chosen for its characteristic features: a bright, luminous white background with dramatic grey veining, offering a wonderfully luxurious feel. The bullnose edge finish to this handsome piece matches the original detail surrounding the tall arched windows.

Beneath the worktop, three drawers attend to the serious work of cooking. They are finished with Armac Martin Oldbury cup handles in Cast Bronze, reminiscent of the Georgian era.

The central drawer houses a secret pull-out that reveals a bespoke fitted interior housing both a knife rack and a spice insert, each slot and compartment designed precisely for its purpose with a discreet push-to-open mechanism.

The knife rack holds a series of chef’s blades in perfect alignment, standing by until exactly the moment they are needed. The spice insert takes the shape of a shallow, tiered tray for labelled jars, meaning every spice is visible and to hand without having to peer over the turmeric, cumin and coriander seeds to find the fenugreek. This clever storage system is often a client favourite, offering a pleasing opportunity for alphabetising, or organisation by cuisine or colour.

On the other side of the table, we opted for a ‘cut-away knee hole’, perfect for seating three barstools to create a convivial and practical family space.

Luxury kitchen showroom Tunbridge Wells Luxury kitchen showroom Kent Luxury kitchen showroom Tunbridge Wells
Luxury kitchen showroom in Tunbridge Wells in Kent

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 2
The Architect’s Chest

In 1828, a twenty-six-year-old architect named Decimus Burton began work on the Calverley Estate in Tunbridge Wells, a development of villas, terraces and public spaces that would become one of the finest examples of Regency planning in England.

The building that houses our twice award-winning showroom on Calverley Road is part of Burton’s legacy. His arched windows face the street, his proportions govern the rooms, and so it is a fitting tribute that we have created the Architect’s Chest. The piece is a nod to the plan chests of Burton’s own era: wide, shallow-drawered cabinets found in every draughting room of the nineteenth century, built to keep large architectural drawings flat, uncreased and perfectly preserved.

This example, which is on display in The Cabinetmaker’s Kitchen, has seven narrow drawers, each fronted with a beautifully proportioned recessed panel in the same stained oak as the Chef’s Table.

Luxury kitchen showroom in Tunbridge Wells in Kent

Rather than performing its original function, the chest’s drawers hold an extensive collection of handle samples for clients to work through, and each one may be taken out in turn, weighed in the hand and held against paint swatches and cabinetry for size and style.

In a real-life kitchen however, such a piece might be used to store tablecloths, placemats, cutlery and coasters. In a hallway, study or artist’s studio, it is likely to become the kind of anchoring piece that a room organises itself around: substantial, calm and in possession of a quiet authority.

Luxury kitchen showroom Tunbridge Wells
Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 3
The Freestanding Island

In our opinion, the best-furnished rooms have always been eclectic. Not carelessly so, and certainly not a jumble of unrelated objects thrown together without thought, but curated deliberately, the pieces together assuming a status that might best be described as knowingly eclectic.

At Rencraft we believe that harmony does not require uniformity, and the farmhouse kitchen in the basement of our Tunbridge Wells showroom works on precisely this principle.

At its centre is a freestanding island painted in Farrow & Ball’s Bancha, a deep, complex green that carries the weight of a well-worn wax jacket. This is complemented by a worktop in Caesarstone Empira White Quartz that reflects the light beautifully and provides a clean, crisp contrast to the hand-painted finish. Sitting in deliberate contrast at one end is a thick walnut chopping board, its end grain dark and richly patterned, a biophilic nod to the pastoral, country house character of the cabinetry.

The island has drawers fitted with brass cup handles and stands on four square-post legs, giving it the unmistakable lightness of furniture rather than the planted solidity of fitted cabinetry. Taken in as part of the whole room against the oak plate rack and the enamel of the butler’s sink, it reads not as the centrepiece of a kitchen installation but as a strikingly important piece of furniture nestling in the middle of a beautifully furnished room.

And there is one further advantage worth noting – whilst the fitted elements of a kitchen must stay behind, an island such as this may come with you, and can easily be hand-painted to match the palette of a new kitchen in pastures new.

Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry
Damson hand painted butchers block

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 4
The Butcher’s Block

Every kitchen needs a workhorse, and this butcher’s block is exactly that. Unarguably beautiful, it is also designed to be used, and this purpose dictated the choice of the end-grain oak worktop.

Sometimes regarded as a high-maintenance surface, at Rencraft our kitchens are proudly built to stand the test of time, and as such, we do not lament the marks left behind after twenty years of cooking. Rather, we see them as happy proof of delicious meals made, of sociable hours whiled away with friends, of a piece of furniture that has done exactly what it was designed to do.

The main body of the butcher’s block is hand-painted in Benjamin Moore’s Plum Raisin, a deep damson with dark plum undertones that contrasts beautifully against the pale warmth of the end-grain oak above and the Giara Country knob in Britanium on the drawer fronts. Below the drawer, a slatted oak shelf runs the full width of the piece, providing an open and practical place to store trays, vegetable baskets and Le Creuset casseroles.

Damson hand painted butchers block

Every Rencraft butcher’s block is designed to suit your household precisely, with dimensions bespoke for your home and hand-painted in any colour of your choosing. Whether you are looking for a compact block to provide a little additional prep surface, or a statement piece to function as a secondary island, our designers will happily talk you through the dimensions, materials and finishes to help you achieve it.

Hand painted bespoke butcher's block with an oak worktop
Luxury kitchen showroom Kent

Furniture, Not Fixtures

In years to come, when a younger generation delights in discovering the secret drawer on your Chef’s Table and finds the spice insert still perfectly fitted, or pulls out a drawer on an Architect’s Chest and feels the smooth, unhurried action of joinery that has had decades to settle, they will not be thinking about craftsmanship – they will simply be using a piece of furniture that, in their memory, has always existed. One that was not only made by a skilled hand, but handed down through the family, with stories and memories invisibly etched into every grain.

Please note our freestanding items are not held in stock. As with every piece of Rencraft furniture, everything is handcrafted to order and made precisely to your specifications.

To discuss your own requirements, please give us a call on 01732 762682 to speak to one of our designers, or send us an email at hello@rencraft.co.uk

Alternatively, you may enjoy a wander through our Tunbridge Wells showroom where you may view each of the four pieces from The Calverley Collection.

The Calverley Collection

Heirlooms in Waiting

There is a quiet revolution happening in the way people think about their homes. But it is not a trend, exactly, it is more of a return: a recognition that the most beautiful rooms have not always been built around fixtures, but around objects. Much loved like the family’s doting Labrador, these items are part of a family’s landscape and never without their quirks. They are pieces that are meticulously handcrafted, that carry a story and improve with age, pieces that will one day be handed down and become another generation’s cherished inheritance.

At Rencraft, we have always believed that a kitchen should contain furniture, not merely cabinetry. Where a fitted kitchen is designed to disappear seamlessly into its context, great freestanding furniture is designed to be noticed: the room’s central focus, which holds the key to truly understanding a space and what it means to its owners. These are pieces with weight, with character, with the texture of real materials worked by real hands.

They are, in the truest sense, heirlooms in waiting.

Handmade bespoke kitchen in Westerham Kent

Why We Love Freestanding Furniture

The great country house interiors of England were never fitted: they were furnished. And this has always been the ethos of our MD, John. “To me, a kitchen isn’t just a kitchen anymore, it’s furniture within a room, and it has to be aesthetically pleasing as well as functional. The best kitchens are the ones that work: they deliver on the practical side, but they’re also pleasing to look at. I always say, if you go into an antique shop, you’ll find pieces of furniture made from wood that were designed a hundred or two hundred years ago, and they’re still attractive today. In a modern way, that’s what we try to do. And if you think about it, that’s the best sustainability you can get.”

If we take a step back into the past, it is plain to see that the beauty so admired inside the land’s stately homes came from the accumulation of purposeful, beautiful objects, each one placed with intention, each one built to outlast its owner.

And this is exactly why we think so carefully about every piece of furniture we make, fitted or otherwise. We see each item not merely as a functional object for today’s kitchen, but as something worth keeping, worthy of passing on.

Handmade bespoke kitchen in Westerham Kent

Here are some of our favourite pieces of freestanding furniture, currently on display in our showroom in Tunbridge Wells.

Bespoke handmade oak table with marble worktop in Tunbridge Wells Kent

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 1
The Chef’s Table

To understand the design behind this standalone piece, you must first understand the architecture of the building in which it stands. Our award-winning, flagship showroom occupies a four-storey Georgian townhouse on Calverley Road in Tunbridge Wells. Its façade looks out onto one of the town’s finest streets through arched windows. It is the kind of building whose proportions remind you how seriously the eighteenth century took beauty as a civic obligation, and every piece of Rencraft cabinetry within it has been fashioned to match that imposing elegance. On the face of it, the building is not an obvious starting point for a piece of kitchen furniture, but it is precisely where the design of the Chef’s Table begins.

Standing elegantly in one of our ground floor displays, this exquisite cook’s table, made from solid oak timber, boasts turned oak legs using traditional woodworking techniques. To add interest, the legs are skilfully fluted along their lower section, with each leg’s radius mirroring the bullnose edge on the marble worktop above. The oak frame and legs are lovingly finished, by hand, with a rich wax to give that aged, antique patina.

The marble, a rare, hand-picked Calacatta, was chosen for its characteristic features: a bright, luminous white background with dramatic grey veining, offering a wonderfully luxurious feel. The bullnose edge finish to this handsome piece matches the original detail surrounding the tall arched windows.

Beneath the worktop, three drawers attend to the serious work of cooking. They are finished with Armac Martin Oldbury cup handles in Cast Bronze, reminiscent of the Georgian era.

The central drawer houses a secret pull-out that reveals a bespoke fitted interior housing both a knife rack and a spice insert, each slot and compartment designed precisely for its purpose with a discreet push-to-open mechanism.

The knife rack holds a series of chef’s blades in perfect alignment, standing by until exactly the moment they are needed. The spice insert takes the shape of a shallow, tiered tray for labelled jars, meaning every spice is visible and to hand without having to peer over the turmeric, cumin and coriander seeds to find the fenugreek. This clever storage system is often a client favourite, offering a pleasing opportunity for alphabetising, or organisation by cuisine or colour.

On the other side of the table, we opted for a ‘cut-away knee hole’, perfect for seating three barstools to create a convivial and practical family space.

Luxury kitchen showroom Tunbridge Wells Luxury kitchen showroom Kent Luxury kitchen showroom Tunbridge Wells
Luxury kitchen showroom in Tunbridge Wells in Kent

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 2
The Architect’s Chest

In 1828, a twenty-six-year-old architect named Decimus Burton began work on the Calverley Estate in Tunbridge Wells, a development of villas, terraces and public spaces that would become one of the finest examples of Regency planning in England.

The building that houses our twice award-winning showroom on Calverley Road is part of Burton’s legacy. His arched windows face the street, his proportions govern the rooms, and so it is a fitting tribute that we have created the Architect’s Chest. The piece is a nod to the plan chests of Burton’s own era: wide, shallow-drawered cabinets found in every draughting room of the nineteenth century, built to keep large architectural drawings flat, uncreased and perfectly preserved.

This example, which is on display in The Cabinetmaker’s Kitchen, has seven narrow drawers, each fronted with a beautifully proportioned recessed panel in the same stained oak as the Chef’s Table.

Luxury kitchen showroom in Tunbridge Wells in Kent

Rather than performing its original function, the chest’s drawers hold an extensive collection of handle samples for clients to work through, and each one may be taken out in turn, weighed in the hand and held against paint swatches and cabinetry for size and style.

In a real-life kitchen however, such a piece might be used to store tablecloths, placemats, cutlery and coasters. In a hallway, study or artist’s studio, it is likely to become the kind of anchoring piece that a room organises itself around: substantial, calm and in possession of a quiet authority.

Luxury kitchen showroom Tunbridge Wells
Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 3
The Freestanding Island

In our opinion, the best-furnished rooms have always been eclectic. Not carelessly so, and certainly not a jumble of unrelated objects thrown together without thought, but curated deliberately, the pieces together assuming a status that might best be described as knowingly eclectic.

At Rencraft we believe that harmony does not require uniformity, and the farmhouse kitchen in the basement of our Tunbridge Wells showroom works on precisely this principle.

At its centre is a freestanding island painted in Farrow & Ball’s Bancha, a deep, complex green that carries the weight of a well-worn wax jacket. This is complemented by a worktop in Caesarstone Empira White Quartz that reflects the light beautifully and provides a clean, crisp contrast to the hand-painted finish. Sitting in deliberate contrast at one end is a thick walnut chopping board, its end grain dark and richly patterned, a biophilic nod to the pastoral, country house character of the cabinetry.

The island has drawers fitted with brass cup handles and stands on four square-post legs, giving it the unmistakable lightness of furniture rather than the planted solidity of fitted cabinetry. Taken in as part of the whole room against the oak plate rack and the enamel of the butler’s sink, it reads not as the centrepiece of a kitchen installation but as a strikingly important piece of furniture nestling in the middle of a beautifully furnished room.

And there is one further advantage worth noting – whilst the fitted elements of a kitchen must stay behind, an island such as this may come with you, and can easily be hand-painted to match the palette of a new kitchen in pastures new.

Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry Bespoke handmade farmhouse kitchen with luxury cabinetry
Damson hand painted butchers block

THE CALVERLEY COLLECTION  ·  NO. 4
The Butcher’s Block

Every kitchen needs a workhorse, and this butcher’s block is exactly that. Unarguably beautiful, it is also designed to be used, and this purpose dictated the choice of the end-grain oak worktop.

Sometimes regarded as a high-maintenance surface, at Rencraft our kitchens are proudly built to stand the test of time, and as such, we do not lament the marks left behind after twenty years of cooking. Rather, we see them as happy proof of delicious meals made, of sociable hours whiled away with friends, of a piece of furniture that has done exactly what it was designed to do.

The main body of the butcher’s block is hand-painted in Benjamin Moore’s Plum Raisin, a deep damson with dark plum undertones that contrasts beautifully against the pale warmth of the end-grain oak above and the Giara Country knob in Britanium on the drawer fronts. Below the drawer, a slatted oak shelf runs the full width of the piece, providing an open and practical place to store trays, vegetable baskets and Le Creuset casseroles.

Damson hand painted butchers block

Every Rencraft butcher’s block is designed to suit your household precisely, with dimensions bespoke for your home and hand-painted in any colour of your choosing. Whether you are looking for a compact block to provide a little additional prep surface, or a statement piece to function as a secondary island, our designers will happily talk you through the dimensions, materials and finishes to help you achieve it.

Hand painted bespoke butcher's block with an oak worktop
Luxury kitchen showroom Kent

Furniture, Not Fixtures

In years to come, when a younger generation delights in discovering the secret drawer on your Chef’s Table and finds the spice insert still perfectly fitted, or pulls out a drawer on an Architect’s Chest and feels the smooth, unhurried action of joinery that has had decades to settle, they will not be thinking about craftsmanship – they will simply be using a piece of furniture that, in their memory, has always existed. One that was not only made by a skilled hand, but handed down through the family, with stories and memories invisibly etched into every grain.

Please note our freestanding items are not held in stock. As with every piece of Rencraft furniture, everything is handcrafted to order and made precisely to your specifications.

To discuss your own requirements, please give us a call on 01732 762682 to speak to one of our designers, or send us an email at hello@rencraft.co.uk

Alternatively, you may enjoy a wander through our Tunbridge Wells showroom where you may view each of the four pieces from The Calverley Collection.

Generations of Luxury

As parents, we spend hours dreaming about the perfect nursery, agonising over paint colours and deliberating where to put the cot and yet so often, once those early years pass, children’s rooms become an afterthought. Hands up who can relate to a haphazard mix of outgrown furniture and overflowing toy boxes! But here’s the thing: why shouldn’t your children have spaces that are just as thoughtfully designed and beautifully crafted as the rest of your home?

At Rencraft, we believe that luxury children’s furniture isn’t about extravagance but about creating spaces that work hard, cater for study and play, but also look beautiful whilst growing with your family for years to come.

Join us as we riffle through the treasure chest of our favourite rooms which we handcrafted for some of our smallest clients.

Handmade luxury cabinetry in Sevenoaks

Suite Dreams

When we talk about children’s furniture, we’re not just thinking about a wardrobe and a bed. We’re thinking about the whole picture: the morning rush when everyone’s trying to get ready for school, the homework sessions at the desk, the bedtime stories, and yes, the endless tide of toys that somehow multiply overnight.

That’s why we approach children’s spaces with the same care and attention to detail that we bring to every Rencraft project; because when a room is thoughtfully designed it doesn’t just look good, it makes daily life easier, calmer and more enjoyable for everyone.

Luxury bathroom cabinetry Kent
Bespoke dressing room bedroom furniture in Sevenoaks

Tots to Teens

One of the very best things about bespoke furniture is its ability to evolve. Take a children’s dressing room, for instance. When they’re little, those lower hanging rails are perfect for tiny coats and dresses, but as your children grow you can adjust the interior to accommodate longer items, add more drawers for their expanding wardrobe, or even create a space for their growing trainer collection (something needs to be done to stop the kids taking over all but one of the shoe nooks in the boot room!).

We recently designed these beautiful dressing rooms for a family’s forever home where we incorporated adjustable shelving and hanging space that can be reconfigured as their children mature from nursery age through to their teenage years. The hand-painted cabinetry and open shelving feel elegant and sophisticated with nothing childish about them, yet it’s perfectly practical for small hands to reach and designed to make it easy for little ones to pick and choose their outfit without pulling everything out of the wardrobes first.

Bespoke dressing room bedroom furniture in Sevenoaks
Luxury children's furniture Kent
Children's luxury playroom with bookcases and bench seating, a media wall and cupboards for storage.

Hide & Chic

Let’s be honest: children come with a lot of stuff! But that doesn’t mean your home needs to look like the Jelly Cat shop exploded and this is where custom design really comes into its own.

We designed these bespoke playrooms with floor-to-ceiling storage that cleverly conceals everything from building blocks to art supplies and from board games to the entire contents of the Barbie mansion.

In both these projects we included a mix of open and closed storage with shelving to house books, snow globes, models and mementos, as well as large cupboards on either side of a television to form a media unit. We fashioned the hand-painted doors to ensure that they close smoothly (no finger-trap hazards here), also meaning the clutter is hidden away and the room transforms from a playroom being put through its paces to an elegant and organised family space in moments.

Custom built children's playroom with cupboard storage and bespoke handmade luxury cabinetry.
Bespoke children's furniture Kent

Homework Havens

One of our favourite solutions is creating a dedicated study area which works perfectly from the days of learning phonics and times tables to the years of GCSEs and beyond. We often design a desk nestled between two wardrobes with open shelving above, making it perfect for displaying favourite books, trophies and keepsakes whilst keeping stationery and schoolwork neatly organised underneath.

And because childhood should never be all work and no play, we also create personal little spaces like this beautiful window seat which not only serves as cosy reading nook to curl up with a favourite book, but also boasts a secret storage compartment underneath the seat for tucking away toys, games and all those special treasures.

Bespoke children's furniture Kent
Luxury children's bedroom furniture Kent
Dark blue handmade boot room with bench seating.

Booting Out The Bedlam

If you have school-age children, you’ll be able to relate to the daily avalanche of hockey sticks, rugby boots and clarinets which tumble through the door and this is where a well-designed boot room or bootility becomes absolutely invaluable.

We design boot rooms with individual bench seating (with more of that clever hidden storage underneath for seasonal items), dedicated pegs at the right height for each child and cubby holes for school bags and shoes. When everything has its proper place, those frantic morning searches for missing PE kits become a thing of the past and the school run becomes a breeze.

One client told us their new boot room had transformed their mornings and their children now come in from school and actually put their things away (most of the time, anyway. Disclaimer: we’re not miracle workers!)

Boot room with coats on pegs, boots and sporting equipment

And if all these beautiful examples aren’t enough to entice you, here are our top 5 reasons why you should invest in Rencraft’s children’s furniture for your family:

What truly sets bespoke furniture apart is our meticulous attention to detail. Our craftsmen shape every piece by hand in our Sevenoaks workshop using traditional joinery techniques. Drawers glide open smoothly (crucial when little hands are opening and closing them dozens of times a day), doors close quietly without that jarring slam and every edge is beautifully finished and perfectly smooth.

Children aren’t always gentle with furniture, which is why we build everything to withstand real family life. This isn’t furniture that will need replacing in a few years because it’s built to last for decades, serving your children now and potentially your grandchildren in years to come. Even better, our cabinetry can be repainted with ease, so when the blush pink and baby blue need to be replaced by something more grown up, there’s no need to replace, just to choose a new colour for a total transformation fit for a trendy teenager.

Every piece we create is made to order, allowing us to customise everything from dimensions to finishes, ensuring it’s exactly right for your space and your family’s needs. Whether you need a desk for a budding artist or writer, open shelving for those meticulously put together Lego creations, or a dressing room to accommodate casual clothes, an array of sports kit and school uniform, we craft furniture that fits perfectly into your home.

One of the joys of choosing Rencraft is creating furniture that flows beautifully through your entire home. Your child’s bedroom wardrobe can be designed to complement the boot room cabinetry, which in turn works harmoniously with your kitchen, so that everything feels intentional and considered rather than cobbled together. We often work on whole-house projects where we design bedrooms, playrooms, dressing rooms and boot rooms too, ensuring that the same quality and attention to detail runs throughout.

Yes, bespoke children’s furniture represents a greater initial investment than flat-pack or high street alternatives, but the true value becomes clear when you consider the bigger picture. This is furniture that will last for decades, adapt as your children grow and even become a cherished family heirloom. More than that, it’s about creating a home environment that truly works for your family because there’s no denying that an organised bedroom makes mornings run smoothly and children can actually keep their spaces tidy, these small improvements to daily life add up to something rather wonderful.

Bespoke bootility room
Children's luxury playroom with bookcases and bench seating, a media wall and cupboards for storage.
Luxury bespoke handmade children's bedroom furniture Kent

The Rencraft Family

If you’re thinking about creating beautiful, bespoke spaces for your children, we’d love to help and you can rely on our friendly designers to take the time to understand how your family lives and design furniture that supports and enhances your daily life.

Just pop into our award-winning showrooms in Tunbridge Wells or Sevenoaks or, if you’d like to make an individual appointment, call us on 01732 762682 or email info@rencraft.co.uk . Alternatively, you can hit the button below to ask a member of our team to contact you personally.

We look forward to welcoming you soon.

 

Luxury bespoke handmade children's bedroom furniture Kent